Environment Archives

Living with Wildfires: Fighting Fire with Fire

How do people live with the threat of wildfires, and what can be done to protect lives? Indigenous Californians may have a solution.

With climate change and other environmental challenges looming large, does the use of organic biofuels help reduce transportation emissions?

An intense wildfire can produce its own weather, potentially causing thunderstorms and even “firenadoes.” Read on to learn how.

Is the BPA found in plastics dangerous to our health? The science doesn’t look good. Learn when to avoid BPA and where it may be found.

Environment

What is an aquatic invasive species? It is non-native species that has been introduced into an area, and it is…

Lizards have personalities, and the bold lizards, regardless of size or sex, have the most success finding mates and getting ahead.

Environment

You’re out hiking and you come to a closed nature trail. What do you do? That’s what this project decided to try and find out.

Interactive educational games for students. Learn about any aquatic environment, oceans, the Everglades. Discounts available for our readers.

A fire management practice known as mastication, or mechanically crushing vegetation to prevent forest fires, threatens bird communities.

Scientists found that honeybees are attracted to fungicides and herbicides. Honeybees have a deadly attraction to the chemicals in Roundup.…